Does anyone use UsePrivilegedPort=yes or setuid ssh(1) ?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 05:54:24PM +1000, Darren Tucker wrote:
> On 6 July 2018 at 17:24, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de>wrote:
> [...]
> > I think we have one customer connection where their firewall admin
> > thinks "it is more secure that way" - read, we can't ssh in if we come
> > from high ports.
> >
> > OTOH, thanks for the pointer with ProxyCommand - it's a very specific
> > niche problem with a viable workaround, so I can't think of any
> > remaining reason why we'd want suid ssh anymore ;-)
> 
> There's another possibility: if you have a NAT-capable packet filter
> in the path you might be able to remap the source ports using source
> NAT.  I think that'd be --to-source=1.2.3.4:800:1023 in iptables (not
> sure about other systems, I didn't see an obvious way to do it with
> PF).

While feasible, I wouldn't actually want to do that.  "If there needs to
be something special in SSH for this particular customer, I want this
to be visible in /etc/ssh/ssh_config".

If I hide it in the network, nobody but me will understand why things
are working, and I will eventually forget...

gert
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